REVIEW: House of D [2004]
“I need the Dad face one more time” David Duchovny has crafted a beautifully touching film with House of D. It is a coming-of-age story of sorts as his character narrates what happened to him around...
View ArticleREVIEW: Happy Feet [2006]
Happy Feet = Brainwashing Propaganda There will be spoilers, however, I highly recommend you not waste your money on this atrocity anyway, so please read on. Let me preface this rant with the fact that...
View ArticleREVIEW: Shakes the Clown [1991]
“Saddle up Chuck!” Quite the interesting film from the warped mind of Bobcat Goldthwait. Shakes the Clown is his debut as a writer/director and tells the story about an alcoholic clown who, while...
View ArticleREVIEW: August Rush [2007]
“The music is all around us; all you have to do is listen” I don’t know if August Rush shows the makings of success like her father Jim, but Kirsten Sheridan has crafted something beautiful. Credit the...
View ArticleREVIEW: Jumanji [1995]
“Til the dice read five or eight” Growing up, if asked who my favorite illustrator was, I’d always reply with Chris Van Allsburg. My elementary school years in Florida saw our librarian reading us many...
View ArticleREVIEW: Happy Feet Two [2011]
“Sometimes you have to back up to go forward” It’s no secret to anyone who knows me that I loathed Happy Feet. As a concept the film seemed quite solid—cute penguins dancing, a modern soundtrack to tap...
View ArticlePosterized Propaganda August 2013: ‘Elysium,’ ‘The World’s End,’ ‘Short Term...
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to...
View ArticleREVIEW: Night at the Museum [2006]
“Keep a lid on it, Butterscotch” While based on a 1993 children’s book by Milan Trenc portraying a museum security guard discovering how he must protect the people outside from the dinosaur skeletons...
View ArticleREVIEW: Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb [2014]
“They’ll burn up like tiny scarabs in Sinai” It appears director Shawn Levy and new screenwriters David Guion and Michael Handelman have thrown the jokey nature of Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant‘s...
View ArticleREVIEW: Happy Feet Two [2011]
“Sometimes you have to back up to go forward” It’s no secret to anyone who knows me that I loathed Happy Feet. As a concept the film seemed quite solid—cute penguins dancing, a modern soundtrack to tap...
View ArticlePosterized Propaganda August 2013: ‘Elysium,’ ‘The World’s End,’ ‘Short Term...
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to...
View ArticleREVIEW: Night at the Museum [2006]
“Keep a lid on it, Butterscotch” While based on a 1993 children’s book by Milan Trenc portraying a museum security guard discovering how he must protect the people outside from the dinosaur skeletons...
View ArticleREVIEW: Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb [2014]
“They’ll burn up like tiny scarabs in Sinai” It appears director Shawn Levy and new screenwriters David Guion and Michael Handelman have thrown the jokey nature of Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant‘s...
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